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glossina

glossina noun: a tsetse fly; any fly of the genus Glossina.

Noun

glossina (plural glossinas)

  1. A tsetse fly; any fly of the genus Glossina.
    • The Sundi plantation employs at present nineteen labourers for catching flies, and in December they caught seventy-five glossinas.1915, Commonwealth Shipping Committee, Report, volume 45, page 59
    • Both trypanosomes and glossinas must have been present in Africa since very remote times.1970, J. D. Fage, R. A. Oliver, Papers in African Prehistory, page 76

Forms of glossina

pluralglossinas

Origin of glossina

Learned borrowing from taxonomic name Glossina.

Questions about glossina

What does glossina mean?
Glossina means a tsetse fly; any fly of the genus Glossina.
What part of speech is glossina?
Glossina is a noun.
What is the plural of glossina?
The plural of glossina is glossinas.

Words near glossina in the dictionary

  1. glossids
  2. glossier
  3. glossies
  4. glossiest
  5. glossily
  6. glossina
  7. glossiness
  8. glossinesses
  9. glossing
  10. glossing over
  11. glossings

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